Kinemalogue
Good taste is better than bad taste, but bad taste is better than none
Monday, May 31, 2021
Tell Mr. Ziegfeld I'm not in, and if I was in, I wouldn't see him, and if I did see him, tell him I wouldn't buy a thing
THE GREAT ZIEGFELD
1936
Directed by Robert Z. Leonard
Written by William Anthony McGuire
Spoiler alert: he needed... more steps
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Wednesday, May 26, 2021
Thank you Mr. Currier and thank you Mr. Ives
THE BELLE OF NEW YORK
1952
Directed by Charles Walters
Written by Chester Erskine, Robert O'Brien, and Irving Elinson (based on the play by Hugh Morton)
Spoiler alert: moderate
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Monday, May 24, 2021
World war zzzzzz
ARMY OF THE DEAD
2021
Directed by Zack Snyder
Written by Shay Hatten, Joby Harold, and Zack Snyder
Spoiler alert: moderate
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Sunday, May 23, 2021
Damn your pores!
OXYGEN
aka Oxygène
2021
Directed by Alexandre Aja
Written by Christie LeBlanc
Spoiler alert: moderate
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Friday, May 14, 2021
20 years ago, we took over their land, their cotton, and their daughter
THE LITTLE FOXES
1941
Directed by William Wyler
Written by Lillian Hellman, Arthur Kober, Dorothy Parker, and Alan Campbell (based on the play by Lillian Hellman)
Spoiler alert: moderate
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Tuesday, May 11, 2021
Believe women, sure, but Bette Davis?
THE LETTER
1940
Directed by William Wyler
Written by Howard E. Koch (based on the play by W. Somerset Maugham)
Spoiler alert: moderate
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Saturday, May 8, 2021
Maybe I love her most when she's her meanest
JEZEBEL
1938
Directed by William Wyler
Written by Clements Ripley, Abem Finkel, and John Huston (based on the play by Owen Davis)
Spoiler alert: moderate
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Wednesday, May 5, 2021
The love that dare not speak its name until halfway through the third act
THE CHILDREN'S HOUR
1961
Directed by William Wyler
Written by John Michael Hayes (based on the play by Lillian Hellman)
THESE THREE
1936
Directed by William Wyler
Written by Lillian Hellman (based on her play
The Children's Hour
)
Spoiler alert: moderate, maybe high
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Sunday, May 2, 2021
I wouldn't want him if he were the last man on the campus
GOOD NEWS
1947
Directed by Charles Walters
Written by Betty Comden and Adolph Green (based on the play by Lew Brown, Laurence Schwab, Frank Mandel, Buddy G. DeSylva, and Ray Henderson)
Spoiler alert: mild
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